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Samuel Woolf

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Samuel Johnson Woolf (1880 - 1948) was active/lived in New York.  Samuel Woolf is known for Portrait, street genre, illustrator.

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 Painter, lithographer, illustrator Samuel Johnson Woolf, 1880-1948, was born in New York City. He studied with Kenyon Cox and George de Forest Brush at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design, both in New York City. Woolf was a frontline artist-correspondent for Time Magazine in Europe with the American Army during World War One, painting portraits of General John C. Pershing, commanding general of the U.S. forces, and General Joffre, of the French.

Woolf was employed at the New York Times before going to Time. From 1924-1935, Woolf produced two hundred charcoal portraits for Time, including those of Charles Lindbergh, Walter P. Chrysler, John L. Lewis (United Mine Workers President), and Pope Pius XI. Woolf executed a pencil portrait of President Calvin Coolidge, in 1923, and a lithographic portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during World War Two.

In 1906, Woolf painted a portrait of Mark Twain, then seventy years old. The artist's description   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2278 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Samuel Woolf available:    Carleton (J Carleton) Wiggins,  Edwin Lord Weeks,  Eugene Higgins,  Walter Stuempfig Jr,  Kenneth Hayes Miller,  Joseph Hirsch,  Isabel (Wolff) Bishop,  Bessie Onahotema Potter (Keyes) Vonnoh,  Elihu Vedder,  Sidney Laufman,  Henry McFee,  Jack Levine,  Saul Schary,  Thomas Ball,  William Henry Lippincott,  Henry Varnum Poor,  Leonard Ochtman,  John Williamson,  Hugo Robus,  Jo (Joseph) Davidson,  Joseph Pennell,  Niles Spencer,  Alexander Helwig Wyant,  Paul Gottlieb Weber



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Samuel Woolf


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt Subject
  • Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • New York City
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Self-Portrait
  • Street Scenes, Street Genre
  • Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Art Association
  • Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
  • George De Forest Brush
  • Kenyon Cox
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
  • National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Julius Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
  • Combat, War Artist: Illustration, Painting or Photography
  • Genre Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/InternationalExhibition of Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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